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Richard Parks

Goodreads author profile

url

http://www.goodreads.com/Ogresan

born

The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.richard-parks.com

twitter username

Richard_Parks

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Short Stories

influences

Fritz Leiber, Parke Godwin, Andre Norton, Ursula K. Le Guin

member since

September 2010

About this author

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I write mostly fantasy, both short stories and novels. My third short story collection, On the Banks of the River of Heaven was published in November, 2010. My second novella with PS Publishing, The Heavenly Fox, has just been released.

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Richard Parks's Blog: Den of Ego and Inquity Annex #2

Zen and the Art of Beating Your Head Against the Wall – Once More, With Rejections

I want to talk about rejections for a minute. Yes, no one likes them, but as the Corleones would say, “It’s nothing personal. Just business.” For the most part that’s actually true, though this being the small and feud-oriented family field that it is, it’s not always true, but close enough for the sake of this discussion.

The idea that it’s “not personal” flies in the face of the idea of the “p...

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Books by Richard Parks

Average rating: 3.54 · 622 ratings · 98 reviews · 30 distinct works

	The Ogre's Wife - Fairy Tales for Grownups 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Worshipping Small Gods 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Four Horsemen, at Their Leisure 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Long Look 3.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	On the Banks of the River of Heaven 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Hereafter, And After 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Spécial Guy Gavriel Kay (Faeries #24 ) by Richard Parks (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Nicolas Cluzeau (Contributor), Pierre-Alexandre Sicart (Contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Heavenly Fox 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Spirits of Wood and Stone 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	Black Kath's Daughter 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Richard is now friends with Selso Xisto
May 31, 2012 04:25pm
Richard made a comment in the group Goodreads Authors/Readers — Welcome Fantasy Authors and Readers! topic "Hi, I'm Richard Parks, and my most recent fantasy novel, The Ghost War was published just last month: "For the witches of Nyhelm, a witch-home is a pla...more "
Apr 20, 2012 07:37am
Richard made a comment in the group Goodreads Authors/Readers — Introduce Yourself! topic "Hi! I'm Richard Parks, and I'm a fantasy writer, but I was a reader first and remain one. I've published short stories everywhere from Asimov's SF to...more "
Apr 20, 2012 07:24am
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Richard gave to: The Imperium Game by K.D. Wentworth	My rating:
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Richard gave to: Moonspeaker (House of Moons Chronicles, #1) by K.D. Wentworth	My rating:
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Richard gave to: The Line Between by Peter S. Beagle read in April, 2012	My rating:
The Line Between by Peter S. Beagle, Tachyon Publications, 2006 One pattern I’ve noticed in the writers I tend to come back to again and again—their “voices” tend to be consistent but their subject matter tends to vary. Sure, writers are people—most o...more
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Richard is on page 176 of 206 of The Line Between The Line Between by Peter S. Beagle progress:	My rating:
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